Engine-valve.



E. BUGATTI.

ENGINE VALVE. APPHCATION FILED FEB. I5; I91]- Patentd Jan. 29,1918.

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ETTORE BUGATTI, 0F PARIS, FRANCE.

ENGINE-VALVE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 29,1918.

Application filed February 15, 1917. Serial No. 148,770.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, E'r'ronr. BUGATTI, a subject of the King of Italy, residing in Paris, France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Engine-Valves, of which the following is a specification.

Engine valves are known having a perforated stem to facilitate the coolingof the valve by means of air, but since the cooling air is not circulated the results attained are not satisfactory.

The present invention relates to an improved cooled engine valve having an internal circulation of cooling fluid, such as air or oil.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention.

Figure 1 is a vertical section, drawn to an enlarged scale of a valve cooled by circulation of air, and of the valve seat.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on line X-X of Flg. 1.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section, drawn to an enlarged scale of a valve cooled by circulation of oil, and of the valve seat.

Referring to Fig. 1, a is the cylinder of the engine, I) the exhaust or admission duct, 0 the valve seat, (2 the water jacket of the cylinder, e the guiding sleeve for the valve, and f the valve cooled by internal circulation of air. I

The valve stem has an axial bore and is internally and externally of two diameters as at g and h. The axial bore in g, the part of smaller diameter, is extended into the bore of the other part It by a copper tube 71 having radial wings j and terminating within a short distance of a stopper 7: which closes hermetically the lower end of the bore in the part h.

The valve stem is also erforated as at o and p to permit circulatlon of the air for cooling, and has stufiing grooves q. The perforations o alternate with the wings j, thus constituting around the tube 2' a number of separate ducts insuring satisfactory distribution of the air within the valve stem.

The valve is returned to its seat by a spring Z compressed between the guide sleeve 6 and a collar m retained on the part 9 by a key n. The valve is controlled in any known manner. The air circulates as follows Since the valve stem has parts 9 and k of difierent diameter the space 1' between the stem and the guide sleeve'e becomes the chamber of a pump into which air is drawn every time the valve opens and from which air is expelled suddenly every time the valve 'cold air, there may be passages, shown in dotted lines at s, in the guide sleeve 6 which are uncovered after the valve has performed a portion of its opening stroke so that air enters directly into the chamber 7' and is expelled by way of'o, j, i and? when the passages s have been covered during the closing stroke of the valve.

In the form shown in Fig. 3 the general construction of the valve is the same as that shown in Fig.1, but. there is added an oil reservoir v,'- provided or not with a pipe t for supplying it with cold oil and a pipe 2," for the exhaust of heated oil. The reservoir is in permanent communication with the atmosphere through passage w.

The perforations p are much lower down the part 9 of the stem than in the case of Fig. 1, being adapted when the valve is closed to register with perforations u in the upper part of the guide sleeve 6 situated above the level of the oil in the reservoir '1;

which surrounds this part of the sleeve.

The operation is as follows When the valve is opened the pressure falls in chamber 1' inducing a flow of oil through perforations 8, as soon as the latter are uncovered. When the valve closes the oil confined in chamber 1- is expelled through perforations 0, the interior of the valve stem, which it cools, and up the tube i, compressing air in the space an. When perforations 0 register with perforations u oil is expelled, by the pressure in as, into the reservoir wherein the pressure is always that of the atmosphere.

The compression which occurs in chamber 1" and space w (Fi 3) or in chamber 7- (Fig.

1) has also the e ect of damping the shock I of larger diameter for passage of ooolin fluid between the interior of the sleeve an the interior of the stem, perforations in the part of smaller diameter for passage of cooling fluid between an external source and the interior of the stem, a tube extending the bore of the part of smaller diameter into the bore of the art of larger diameter and partitions in t e space between the said tube and the internal face of the axial bore of the part of larger diameter.

' 2. An engine valve having an axially boredreciprocating stem of two diametera a sleeve wherein the part of larger diameter moves as a piston, perforations in the part of larger diameter for passa e fluid betweenthe interior of tie sleeve and the interior of the stem, perforations in the of cooling neeaere I part of smaller diameter for assage of cooling fluid between an externa source and the interior of the stem, a tube extending the bore of the part of smaller diameter into the bore of the part of larger diameter, partitions in the space between the said tube and the internal face of the axial bore of the part of larger diameter and perforations for passage of fluid between an external source and the interior of the sleeve.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed .myname in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, v a

ETTUIRE'BUGATTI. Witnesses: v

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